Alie Falastein Title: Connectivity Estimation in Neuronal Networks: The Hidden Node Problem Abstract: The human brain is a complex system consisting of billions of neurons. The network connectivity of these neurons gives rise to a variety of dynamical behaviors and understanding it is key to describing the underlying evolution of the system. However, in our analysis of…

Maggie Figueroa   Title: Breaking Cryptography – the Discrete Log Problem   Abstract: The goal of cryptography is to allow ciphertext to be decoded only by the intended recipient. The privacy of the message relies heavily on the key used in the encryption function. Once a key is obtained, the decryption function follows easily. Cryptosystems such as…

Starting at 3:30 PM, please join us in the Commons, SAS 4104, before tomorrow's Fall Department Meeting for NC State's own Howling Cow ice cream!

This meeting is for the COS administration to meet and speak with the math faculty. Dean McGahan will start the discussion and will have a Q&A session at this meeting. Also, Debbie Carraway, COS Director of Information Technology, Meghan Kerr, COS Director of Research Administration, and Roy Baroff, NC State Faculty and Staff Ombudsman, will…

Grant Barkley Title: Domino Tilings and Divisibility Abstract: A domino tiling of a region in the plane is an arrangement of 2x1 domino tiles that completely covers that region. These tilings are an example of a more general construction in graph theory called perfect matchings. We are interested in counting the number of ways to cover certain…